The right stuff: Teaching kids about copyright

By TARA WOODALL, eSchoolNews

It can be hard to get moral compasses to twitch when discussing the intricacies of copyright law, public domain, fair use, and Creative Commons. Those concepts seem abstract and removed from the concerns of adolescents. It can be even harder to break them of the habit of doing a Google image search and grabbing the first relevant and powerful image they see.  But remember that John F. Kennedy famously talked about the importance of doing the “hard stuff” in his “moon speech” at Rice Stadium in 1962. He spoke of the importance of getting to the moon, but I think that we can take the spirit of his words and apply them to teaching this particular tough corner of digital citizenship. I’m here to argue that we should choose to teach copyright not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because the goal of understanding copyright will serve to measure the best of student energies, skills, and citizenship.

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/09/07/teaching-kids-copyright/

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Nearly a third of U.S. teenagers use technology to cheat

By SHARON NOGUCHI, Mercury News

U.S. teenagers think they are savvy about cybersecurity–so much that nearly one-third skirt school safeguards to access banned content and 29 percent admit to using tech devices to cheat in school–but more than twice that many say they know of classmates who have cheated with devices, a survey found. The findings of the survey by the computer security firm McAfee are in proportion with a 2009 survey by Common Sense Media–although the exact extent of cheating, and whether it’s changed over the years, is unknown.

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/09/07/teenagers-use-electronics-cheat/

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Chicago’s Path to Become a ‘City of Learning’

LINDA POON, City Lab
Four years after launching a digital platform to connect students with out-of-school programs, researchers are reaping the benefits: a large pool of data to study the inequity of informal education.  Chicago’s 400,000 public school students are shuffling back into classrooms this week for ice breakers, syllabus rundowns, and the first lessons of the school year. For some, though, the learning never really stopped in the summer months, thanks to the thousands of sports camps, coding academies, art lessons, and other programs available to children in the city. Similar after-school programs are key to keeping kids off the streets year-round—but that’s only the case if the students are able to access the programs designed to serve them. Nearly four years ago, in an effort to help connect students to extracurricular offerings, Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched the Chicago City of Learning online platform (CCOL). It’s something of a one-stop shop that allows kids to easily search through hundreds of out-of-school programs based on their interests.

https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2017/09/chicago-after-school-programs-digital-youth-network/537591/

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For higher ed CIOs navigating tight budgets, relationships key

by Roger Riddell, Naomi Eide; Education Dive

Of course for IT leadership on campus, it also helps to foster good relationships with the other vice presidents and provosts, as well as the campus president. “I actually report to the president, which is a real advantage because I have the president’s ear,” said Melissa Woo, vice president for information technology and CIO at Stony Brook University. “But the other VPs have to know what IT’s value is, because I think most people think IT is just keeping things running.” “It’s network that nobody notices until it’s gone,” Woo said. “It’s a lot of services that nobody really thinks about until they’re down, and I think having that relationship with the other VPs means they can actually see us as a strategic partner.”

http://www.ciodive.com/news/for-higher-ed-cios-navigating-tight-budgets-relationships-key/425875/

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Marion ahead of curve in student industry certifications

by Joe Callahan, Ocala Star Banner

Beginning July 1, 2018, the state Department of Education will require that 75 percent of all middle school students must have earned at least one Digital Tool certification. The IC3 Spark certification was offered as a pilot program at Howard and Osceola middle schools in 2015-16. Now, the course is being offered at middle schools throughout the district.

http://www.ocala.com/news/20160908/marion-ahead-of-curve-in-student-industry-certifications

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Coursera bets on enterprise learning market

by the Business Line

Online education firm Coursera has launched ‘Coursera for Business’, an enterprise platform, to tap into the USD 31-billion global corporate e-learning market. It has also roped in customers like L’Oreal, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as well as India’s Axis Bank. “Coursera for Business enables companies to utilise Coursera’s learning content, created by 145 universities and other institutions, to help address the rapidly evolving training and development needs of their businesses,” it said in a statement. The launch marks Coursera’s entry into the multi-billion dollar global corporate online learning market, which is growing at over 10 per cent a year, it added.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/education/coursera-bets-on-enterprise-learning-market/article9086162.ece

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How Digital Equity Can Help Close the Homework Gap

By Keith R. Krueger, Marie Bjerede, THE Journal

Does educational technology close the achievement gap or widen it? Even in the best-case scenarios, when the potential of digital learning is fulfilled and all student achievement increases, the gap is likely to increase. Why? As Tom Vander Ark points out in his book Getting Smart, when we use ed tech to raise the floor for student achievement, the ceiling is raised even further. Unfortunately, educational technology leaders often see only the best-case scenario. In reality, when the achievement gap increases, sometimes it is because the absolute performance improvements may be limited to select students due to a number of factors.

http://thejournal.com/articles/2015/09/10/how-digital-equity-can-help-close-the-homework-gap.aspx

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SA’s iGrow Academy expands online training courses to Canada

BY TOM JACKSON, Disrupt-Africa

South African startup iGrow Academy, which provides low-cost online vocational and soft skill courses licensed by academic institutions. Launched in September last year, iGrow Academy announced in June it had raised funding from a South African educational institution in order to expand marketing of its online courses. The startup is also expanding geographically, with chief executive officer (CEO) Jared Koning telling Disrupt Africa the company has now established a satellite office in Toronto, Canada ahead of further launches in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK). Koning said three major e-commerce players based in Canada have shown interest in selling the soft skills courses, with iGrow Academy expecting to hit more than 4,000 students in the country by the end of 2016. The startup also sees an opportunity in educating immigrants into Canada.

http://disrupt-africa.com/2015/09/sas-igrow-academy-expands-online-training-courses-to-canada/

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How to Start Developing Your eLearning Courses

by Entrepreneur

In Start Your Own eLearning or Training Business, the Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. explain how to create a successful distance learning business from the ground up. In this book, you’ll find information on all the steps you need to start and run a distance learning business. In this edited excerpt, the authors offer a quick, four-step guide to developing courses your audience will be interested in.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/249613

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Trying Out Gamification In the Classroom? These Tools Are For You

By Katie Lepi, Edudemic

Getting students actively engaged and learning by leveraging the power of gamification in the classroom is a hot trend these days. The idea of getting students learning, sharing, and laughing by using gamification shows great promise, to be sure. But where should you start in terms of finding the tools that will actually help you out?

http://www.edudemic.com/trying-gamification-classroom-tools/

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Brush Up On Your EdTech Vocabulary With This Cheat Sheet

By Jeff Dunn, Edudemic

Do you know what a flipped classroom requires? How about a 1:1 classroom? If you’re a regular reader of Edudemic, then you probably are more than informed about what these terms mean and how they’re implemented in modern classrooms. That’s probably because we started Edudemic many moons ago on the same day Apple launched the iPad. Since then, a lot has changed in the world of education technology. For one, the edtech vocabulary has expanded quite a bit. As a modern educator, you’ll need to know what a lot of key phrases mean and how they could affect your day-to-day activities. This visual guide from Boundless is just for you, then. The guide is designed to help you understand “the latest trends in educational technology” but really – let’s be honest – it’s a great way to finally figure out what a lot of terms mean before your next staff meeting.

http://www.edudemic.com/brush-edtech-vocabulary-cheat-sheet/

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Can technology solve K-12 budgetary deficits?

By Norman Rozenberg, Tech Page One

While technology has transformed K-12 education for the better — including innovations that go beyond conventional PowerPoints and Smart Boards and novelties that help children with autism communicate — it is a luxury for many districts. But perhaps technology can be leveraged to lower the costs of education. Blended learning, which combines traditional brick-and-mortar schooling with online education, could help stem these rising costs and ease the burden on schools.

http://techpageone.dell.com/technology/can-technology-solve-k-12-budgetary-deficits/

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